T. E. Vadney was born in 1939 and is Professor of History at the University of Manitoba in Canada. He organized the programme in contemporary world history and he continues to teach and write on US and global affairs.
Workmanlike survey of international affairs and global trends in the past 70-odd years, going back to the causes and course of World War II before assessing its results. Vadney attends to remote as well as to familiar corners of the world, stresses the importance of national feeling, and carries on past the collapse of the Soviet bloc to the emergence of the USA as, for the time being, the world's only superpower. (Kirkus UK)